If you noticed something a little funny on Twitter recently, you aren’t alone: the company confirmed that it “accidentally” pushed an update that briefly killed off the @ symbol in front of usernames. 258 more words

Blippar, an augmented reality startup that uses machine learning to recognize and catalog objects, has added faces to its mix.

The app festoons the objects it scans with halos of links to more information and presents the graphics to mobile users (it did a reasonably good job on a Naked Security cat, pictured above) though we did wonder about the “offspring” classification. 759 more words

A new survey commissioned by BuzzFeed found that most people believed the “fake news” stories they got through Facebook. But the survey also showed something else interesting: Namely, that the vast majority of people don’t remember the news they get from Facebook at all—real or fake. 593 more words